Everton Park Same Day Blocked Drains

What we clear, and for whom. We handle toilets, sewers and stormwater lines for the suburb's 1960s and 1970s family houses, plus the townhouses and units around the South Pine Road and Stafford Road shopping strips. Much of that housing went up before plastic pipe was the norm, so the drains beneath it are ageing clay. We're locally owned, not a franchise.

1. 01

   Clay pipe under old driveways

   The suburb built out mostly through the 1960s and 1970s, before plastic drain pipe became standard, so the older blocks rest on earthenware lines or on a patchwork where new lengths meet old. Those brittle joints don't like the vehicle weight crossing the wide driveways of that era, and once a section folds, the same toilet or floor waste keeps blocking.

2. 02

   Roots from mature gardens

   Established gardens and the tree cover tracking Kedron Brook push roots into joints that have sat in the ground for decades. Until someone repairs or replaces the damaged length, expect the same drain to go slow every storm season.

3. 03

   Grease near the retail strips

   The food shops at Everton Plaza and the cafes on Stafford Road tip fats into shared commercial lines. Winter cold sets those fats hard, and the pipe bore closes in a little more each week.

4. 04

   Low ground beside the creek

   When Kedron Brook runs high over the flats near Burwood Road and Gordon Parade, the outfall sits above the yard drains, so household fixtures go slow and gully traps spill.

1. Gurgling after flushing

   air trapped behind a partly blocked line, usually roots or a sagging section of old pipe.

2. Water rising in the shower while the basin drains

   the two fixtures share a blocked branch line somewhere under the floor.

3. Sewage smell near an outside gully

   the trap has dried out, or the line downstream is holding water it should pass.

4. Toilet slow to refill after flushing

   the vent or the sewer branch is partly blocked, and it rarely fixes itself.

1. Creek flats on the flood maps

   Council's February 2022 flood mapping takes in most of the flats by Burwood Road and Everton Park Link Road, and part of Gordon Parade beside them.

2. Overland flow does more of the work

   For most lots the bigger worry is stormwater rushing overland, which Council maps along Stafford Road and Holloway Drive; the 1974 and 2011 Brisbane River flood layers never reach this far north.

3. The November to March load

   Summer storms bring hail and torrential rain, and the suburb's gullies funnel it all toward Kedron Brook, so when the creek is high your yard drains have nowhere to push water.

Gully traps spill in that weather even when the pipes themselves are clear. If your stormwater blocks every wet season, the fault usually sits at the outfall, not in the pipe.